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Sunday, 14th March 2010

Five athletics golds for supermum Manjit

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Published Date: 14 May 2009
A remarkable all-round performance from Manjit Bains produced the talking point of the 2009 Warwickshire Athletics Championships at Saffron Lane, Leicester.
The Leamington C&AC veteran packed nine events into two days of competition last weekend - and would have made it ten had the triple jump not run late and clashed with the javelin on Sunday afternoon.

As physically gruelling as it was, her efforts
were rewarded with masters gold medals in the pole vault, high jump, 100 and 200 metres, and long jump, and silvers in the javelin, shot, hammer and discus.

Manjit's hammer throw, a personal best of 26.42, was probably the pick of the performances.

Her daughter, Karenjeet, still only 12 and in her first year as an under-15, picked up a gold medal in the hammer and a silver in the 300m, when she clocked 47.7 in spite of slipping over at the start.

Altogether Leamington athletes pulled in a total of 40 medals from the championships, which were combined with those of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.

Cosima Berry, still in her first season with the club, equalled the under-15 high jump record with a winning leap of 1.60m. Cosima attends Tudor Hall school in Oxfordshire but as her family home is in Northamptonshire, she competed in the Northants championships.

In the Warwickshire event, Taisia Shuttleworth earned an excellent silver medal by jumping ten centimetres higher than she had done before - 1.50m.

Callum Hanlon's promise as a middle-distance runner was emphasised once again. The C&AC under-15 registered 2.07.7 in finishing second in the 800m.

He also set a big pb in the triple jump, adding more than 50cm to his old mark with a jump of 10.49.

The Sinnott brothers were also in fine form. Callum won the under-15 long jump with a new best of 5.58 on Saturday, and 24 hours later set another new best mark by high jumping 1.60 for another gold.

Under-13 prospect Rory earned a silver in the high jump and won the long jump with a promising 4.70m, plus a fractional new best in the 100m with 13.9.

Nick Frodsham's quality as a sprinter shone through again.
He missed out by a barely noticeable margin in the 100m, finishing with the same time as the winner in 11.0, but then taking the 200m by a similarly tight margin in 22.7.

C&AC's male distance runners produced a pleasing gold medal double. Richard Harper took eight seconds off his previous best in the 5,000m as he won the senior event in 15.17.1, while Jack Mee won the under-20 title, improving his best for the second time in eight days, by 18 seconds as he clocked 16.22.1.

Charlie Eastaugh also dominated the under-20 800m from the front, finishing some way clear in 1.57.2.

Back with the under-15 boys, Sam Harris continued his development with silver medals in the shot and 200m and a bronze in the javelin.

Josh Guest, perhaps as expected, won the under-17 high jump, clearing 1.85m, while Abbie Frodsham set the inaugural club under-17 pole vault record with 1.80 for another gold medal.

Faye Barr also reduced the club under-20 record for the 2,000m steeplechase to 9.14.2 with another first place.

Sprinter Shelley Went picked up a pair of silver medals in the 100m and 200m, while in the under-17 1,500m, Jimmy Bull and Chris Wood finished out of the medals but both set new best times with positive runs, clocking 4.37.7 and 4.41.4 respectively.

Mary Donaldson also earned a confidence-building bronze in the under-17 800m. That was compensation for disappointment in the javelin, perhaps her best event at the moment, where she finished just out of the medals in fourth with a good throw of 26.49.

Stephanie Childs added to the medals in the senior events, with silver in the 400m hurdles and bronze in the 200m.

There were also medals to be had in the masters events. Susie Tawney ran 5.21.9 for gold in the 1,500m, with Dave Ashworth winning the corresponding men's event in 4.33.2, while the 5,000 saw June Johnson take first place with 23.13.4.

Chris Georgiou and Mark Wise gave Leamington a one-two in the masters 100m, with Wise also winning the 400m.

Sebastien Garcia, who is normally a 400m runner, ran the 100m this time, finishing fourth in his heat, while Steven Dealtry qualified for the final eighth fastest, and eventually finished seventh in 11.7.

Zara Blower was fourth in the senior 5,000m, Simon Bennett and James Harris finished out of the medals in the senior 200m, and Annie Leathem and Natalie Bugg also represented C&AC in the under-15 long jump and under-17 300m respectively.

Young Ryan Kenny took silver second in the senior 1,500m for Coventry Godiva in 4.06.4, while another Leamington-based athlete with Godiva, Hannah Stanley, ran 44.3 for second place in the under-17 300m.

Freddie Pask and his younger sister Annabelle, both of Napton, had the rare distinction of becoming county champions on the same day.

Freddie is 19 and in his first year at Nottingham University while Annabelle, 11, attends St Lawrence School in Napton.

Annabelle gained the gold medal in the under-13 girls' long jump with a leap of 4.18m despite being a year younger than many of her rivals.

Freddie, a former Southam College pupil, won the senior men's pole vault with a personal best of 4.50m, a height which establishes him in the top 25 vaulters in the country on current official rankings.

Annabelle followed her Saturday success with silver in the shot and bronze in the high jump on Sunday.

Kenilworth's Molly Bagworth won the under-20 women's 100m hurdles in a personal bect 15.8sec to become Warwickshire champion at the higher age group, having taken the under-17 crown last year.

Molly trains at Coventry Godiva Harriers.



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